KINGFISHER, Okla.—A man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing four workers at an Oklahoma marijuana farm in 2022. Chen Wu pleaded guilty at a court hearing Friday to four counts of first-degree murder and to one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon in connection with the Nov. […]
WESTFIELD, Ind.—Remains recovered from the central Indiana estate of a presumed serial killer have been identified as those of a man reported missing in 1993, a coroner said Thursday. The remains recovered in 1996 at the Fox Hollow Farm estate of Herbert Baumeister were found to match Manuel Resendez, who was 34 when he disappeared, […]
BOSTON—A former pizzeria owner has been sentenced to two years in prison for using over $660,000 in fraudulently obtained pandemic relief funds to buy an alpaca farm. In 2020, Dana McIntyre, 59, of Grafton, Vermont, submitted a fraudulent application for a Paycheck Protection Program loan, prosecutors said. He inflated information about the pizzeria’s employees and […]
Local leaders in Sacramento are now helping the illegal immigrants who were dropped off at the state capitol. Florida officials also shared footage of the journey. Another insurance company is ending business in California. They say costs are now too high to operate here. A California school district is recognizing Pride month, leading to local […]
DIMMITT, Texas—A fire and explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of cattle was an accident that started with an engine fire in a manure vacuum truck cleaning part of the massive barn, according to state investigators. A State Fire Marshal report of […]
Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.), will host a farm bill listening session in Waco, Texas. Thompson will be joined by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), along with bipartisan Members of the House Committee on Agriculture. The event will bring together farmers, ranchers, producers, agribusiness owners, and solicit public feedback—an integral […]
OKLAHOMA CITY—The Oklahoma marijuana farm where four people were killed and one was wounded was operating under an illegally obtained license to grow marijuana for medical purposes, an Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics spokesman said Friday. The application for the license by Kevin Pham fraudulently stated that the operation was 75 percent owned by an […]
The suspect in the weekend killings of four people at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma was arrested in the afternoon by officers in South Florida, police announced late Tuesday. Wu Chen was taken into custody without incident just before 4 p.m. Central time by Miami Beach police and taken to the Miami-Dade County Detention Center, […]
VAN WERT, Ohio—Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said. So many minks were killed crossing a nearby road that a plow was brought in to help clear the carcasses away, said Van Wert County […]
Eleven people working for one of the nation’s leading turkey producers have been charged with animal cruelty in Pennsylvania after state police said they were caught on video kicking, stomping, and beating turkeys at several farms. The workers were responsible for capturing and crating turkeys destined for slaughter, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday. Police launched […]
Canada and Ireland are reportedly rolling out policies to force their farmers to cut carbon emissions to a point that the farmers say would affect food production. Despite the potential negative consequences, the policies would seem to achieve only minute results for the “decarbonization” agenda. NTD spoke with former USDA soil scientist Kelly Walker, who said the transition to organic […]
Gun makers and dealers in California may be facing legal problems in the near future. The governor signed a bill into law that will allow victims of gun violence to sue the companies who produce and sell firearms. We’ll hear what people are saying about it. For months, the Los Angeles County sheriff has been […]
Over 10 percent of pork in UK supermarkets have been infected by a potentially fatal superbug, according to an investigation. British supermarkets Asda and Sainsbury’s have discovered that some of their pork is infected with MRSA, a variant of enterococci bacteria that has antibiotic resistance. Over 10 percent of the pork sampled in the investigation—including joints, […]
Chinese state companies are buying up U.S. farmland, part of a strategic process behind the global land grab by the Chinese Communist Party. What is it for? A new 300-acre land purchase near a U.S. Air Force base may give us indications. I also speak with Rachelle Peterson and Ian Oxnevad from the National Association […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologized to people over three controversial farm laws that have sparked a year-long protest by farmers, pledging that the government would abolish the laws during the next session of Parliament. The government has failed to convince farmers to accept the farm laws, Modi said in his nationally-televised address on Nov. […]
